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Ok, after having a few puntures on the last few rides i am running out off new tubes, now do i buy new or repair my old ones????
what do you guys do????
Last time I needed some I asked in my LBS "how much for 50" and they gave me such a good discount its hardly worth the effort of repairing them.
Repair! However if that will result in an unacceptable weight gain I will be happy to take "one careful owner" tubes off your hands for the cost of postage. Some of my very few have 4 or so repairs so might want a rest.
Rode through some feshly cut hawthorn the other day: 5 sodding punctures in the rear tube, 3 in the front! Repaired them all...patches are still cheaper than replacements (plus why bin a perfectly repairable tube?).
i save all my punctured tubes up then spend a sad night in with beer and my repair kit, some of my tubes have 10 or more repairs in :D, but they still keep going so why the need to buy new every time ? seems a waste to me.
repair - think of the environment not just cost and besides it is good practice for when you do not have a spare tube!
I find MTB tubes easy to repair but road or skinny tubes very difficult.
I have a similar approach to fatmutha!
i save all my punctured tubes up then spend a sad night in with beer and my repair kit, some of my tubes have 10 or more repairs in :D, but they still keep going so why the need to buy new every time ? seems a waste to me.
I could have written that!
Me too - I hate waste.
Repair them.
For crying out load what a waste of decent tubes and damaging to the environment to chuck them away. Alternatively go tubeless that is IF you can tolerate the 'fun' of seating them!
Working in a bike shop it's not economically viable to repair, so new tubes are fitted. Haven't had to buy a tube for myself since I started there as I wouldn't dream of throwing a repairable tube away.
"spend a sad night in with beer and my repair kit,"
Used to, then went Ghetto tubeless so have forfeited that pleasure.
Actually, not quite true. The road bike and my GFs bike still have tubes but they don't get ridden much.
Always replace. One the rare occasions (touch wood) I get a puncture it's normally due to pinch flatting. Two dirty big slices along the seams of the tube, not worth fixing considering the hassle imo. I get them for buttons anyway.